I tried posting on Reddit a couple of times when I had new blog posts but found my posts were immediately deleted because I didn’t have post history on the subreddits. Haven’t used Reddit since!
Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
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Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#32Short story: yes.
Anything that is not targeting current events is super easy to game.
Hot chicks, historical photos, "TIL", and "interesting" subsa re rife with unoriginal content and onlyfans bait. Then, as some have noted, there will be bots that steal comment top comments of those reposts, for another layer of bullshit.
Many current events subs are safe spaces of far left or far right agendas.
I'm left wing, bit the Texas subreddit got co-opted by overtly political moderators and it is mostly political now (though it's hard to avoid politics these days).
The only genuine places these days are hobby subs that are hard to game karma from. And maybe some local or regional subs.
Otherwise... Yeah, it's gotten really, really bad.
I should do a write up with some of my findings.
Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#33"devoid of any critical thought" This defines Reddit. No bots involved.
This defines most of social media. Some (many?) topics on HN are not immune either, it just has good moderation.
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#34The last couple times I tried to make an account, it was instantly hellbanned.
Guess they prefer the bots. So I come here and go on Mastodon for ocean-pissing
Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#35There's more to this. If you see traffic that comes from reddit it inexplicably dropped off a lot (like over 30%) after the US election, even in totally unrelated areas. The preferences of HN in recent months have also changed in some hard to pinpoint way, but I suspect it is now gamed to a degree that is hard to fight due to all the tools for writing AI bots.
Thus ends the professional enshitfication of redwhatit, and only the armatures are left. Best of luck monetizing that API.
Don't you see? The people paying for the API are running bots...
Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#36I've observed it right here on hn.
Whatever changes one may have observed at HN, I promise you, it is still a fortress compared to reddit.
Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#37Flagged this because shitposts about other sites just oughta be flagged.
Tell me otherwise and prove it!
Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#38I occasionally browse Reddit (I don't have an account), but I think I knew that it was going bad back when all those subreddits were protesting.
Back then, it wasn't because of bots, but I did think that most websites going through enshittification will eventually be filled with bots.
I did find https://discuit.net to be a good alternative, as well as Lemmy.
Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#39> last year I dunno, a bit before that my only account of 10+ years got sitewide shadowbanned without warning or explanation, with everything I ever wrote (and all replies to it) vanishing from public view. I used their appeal page, got a message saying it was an error and my appeal was approved ... and then it stayed broken and and appeals won't work because it says the account is normal . I resurrected an ancient c…
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Re: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
#40Short story: yes. Anything that is not targeting current events is super easy to game. Hot chicks, historical photos, "TIL", and "interesting" subsa re rife with unoriginal content and onlyfans bait. Then, as some have noted, there will be bots that steal comment top comments of those reposts, for another layer of bullshit. Many current events subs are safe spaces of far left or far right agendas. I'm left wing, bit…
Yeah I had to leave /r/texas, very low signal:noise. /r/dallas is better, at least.